Another note on “the hump”
My only piloting experience was in a cessna in the sonoran desert. The planes cant quite clear the peaks and that requires flying mountain passes to get through.
Well, as soon as you hit the mountain face you encounter severe updrafts, in the passes all kinds of wind shear.
Experienced pilots often meet their demise in these conditions. Recently Steve Fossett.
Scared the crap out of me. I never did get that license.
This is why the Burma/China filght path was called the Aluminum Trail.....follow the crash sites.